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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Richard Moore on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @07:45

Sadly, this is not the case - we've been very poor on the marketing side of things historically, despite our technical achievements. The league should help a great deal in this respect by allowing the developers to get on with coding, rather than having to waste time writing press releases/brochures etc. Keeping the league out of the development process itself means that we avoid the issue of creating a centralised authority which is something that would be totally against the KDE philosophy.

Rich.

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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Anonymous on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @07:59

I don't understand.
KDE's marketing seems to be one of the best out there.
Look at all those KDE users/zealots!
Nearly all computer magazines who writes about Linux thinks that KDE is the only desktop for it.
Most distros install KDE as default desktop.
How can you say that the marketing is poor?

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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Afrosheen on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @08:59

The marketing is poor, it's true. The fact that alot of developers/magazines have nearly all their screen shots from KDE is due to KDE's stability. Gnome code has been buggy from the beginning (either that or Enlightenment, the old default WM, was full of bugs) and was quite unstable. Things have changed for Gnome since it began using Sawfish as it's admittedly excellent WM, but old time KDE users have even more to love about KDE2. In the Linux world, unlike the Windoze world, people like things for stability and functionality rather than PR. But I admit that KDE is in need of good PR. Who isn't?

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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Dirk Manske on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @12:06

The marketing from magazines was poor cause mostly they show the ugly default look. If they compared kde (1.x) with Windows they always said kde has _four_ virtual screens...

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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Anonymous on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @22:36

Doesn't it?

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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Dirk Manske on Thursday 16/Nov/2000, @01:09

No. Using default settings kde have four screens. It is configurable (2 to 8).

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